Date: 13 Dec 2002 17:15:17 +0000 From: David Gethings <davidg@pipex.net> To: John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fdisk and HD's larger than 2GB Message-ID: <1039799716.11203.84.camel@trigger.highway.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0212130938370.11465-100000@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org> References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0212130938370.11465-100000@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org>
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On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 14:41, John Bleichert wrote: > This can't be a bug or limitation in FreeBSD's fdisk, it must be a quirk > in your hardware (we've all seen them hehe!). Since 4.5, I've had FreeBSD > installed on several boxes with enormous hard drives in various > partitioning schemes without a glitch. > > I had issues once with OpenBSD wanting to be on a smaller partition, but > never with FreeBSD. Ah! Didn't think of that. I know it's a Maxtor something-or-other, I'll have to have a look to work out the exact model. Once I've done that I'll check the hardware compatability list. Cheers Dg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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